House Resolution 157 - Introduced

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2                  BY  UPMEYER AND SMITH
  1  3 A Resolution designating April 2006 as Kidney Cancer
  1  4    Awareness Month.
  1  5    WHEREAS, each year more than 36,000 people in the
  1  6 United States are diagnosed with kidney cancer, and
  1  7 more than 100,000 kidney cancer survivors are
  1  8 currently living in the United States; and
  1  9    WHEREAS, the exact cause of kidney cancer is
  1 10 unknown; and
  1 11    WHEREAS, kidney cancer occurs nearly twice as often
  1 12 in men as in women and most frequently in men over 40
  1 13 years of age; and
  1 14    WHEREAS, the American Cancer Society estimates that
  1 15 in 2006 there will be 38,890 new cases of kidney
  1 16 cancer diagnosed in the United States, with 24,650 of
  1 17 those cases diagnosed in men and 14,240 of those cases
  1 18 diagnosed in women; and
  1 19    WHEREAS, other than surgery, the most commonly used
  1 20 treatments for kidney cancer are immunotherapy,
  1 21 radiation, and chemotherapy; and
  1 22    WHEREAS, breakthroughs in research during the past
  1 23 year have given renewed hope to patients who
  1 24 previously had few treatment options; NOW THEREFORE,
  1 25    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  1 26 That the House of Representatives designates the month
  1 27 of April as Kidney Cancer Awareness Month in Iowa, and
  1 28 urges the citizens of this state to lend their support
  1 29 to efforts to develop new and more effective
  1 30 treatments for controlling and curing kidney cancer;
  2  1 and
  2  2    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That an official copy of
  2  3 this Resolution be prepared and forwarded by the Chief
  2  4 Clerk of the House to the National Kidney Cancer
  2  5 Association located in Evanston, Illinois.
  2  6 LSB 6645HH 81
  2  7 rn:nh/cf/24